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  • At that time, transistors were only used only in minature portable radios, which up until that time were powered by vacum-tubes and large batteries (A and B+ types).

    Buying Tomatoes at the Birthplace of Silicon Valley - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • Not that I have a lot of interest in minature quilts, but there are a few in here with very interesting techniques, like a paper quilt and one stitched with a double needle - for £1, it was well worth it.

    Region Two Area Day katelnorth 2007

  • Not that I have a lot of interest in minature quilts, but there are a few in here with very interesting techniques, like a paper quilt and one stitched with a double needle - for £1, it was well worth it.

    Archive 2007-10-01 katelnorth 2007

  • I present these, not just to show our readers what I'm doing when not writing, but also because many of the design issues I have had to address represent in minature some of the larger concerns we have discussed on this website, particularly what constitutes what might be termed the traditional, canonical 'deposit' of iconography that lies at the core of Christian art, and what stylistic elements that make manifest that deposit may be molded and organically developed over time.

    Some Recent Illustration Commissions 2009

  • Treasures include fancifully decorated skulls, coffins and other sweets made of sugar, chocolate or amaranth seeds; toys, such as minature wooden or paper coffins with skeletons inside (pull the string and he sits up); and my favorite, papel picado -- delicate tissue paper cutouts with humorous depictions of skeletons engaged in a varied of activities -- both the workmanship and the themes are truly amazing.

    Day of the Dead: things to do around Guadalajara 2006

  • Treasures include fancifully decorated skulls, coffins and other sweets made of sugar, chocolate or amaranth seeds; toys, such as minature wooden or paper coffins with skeletons inside (pull the string and he sits up); and my favorite, papel picado -- delicate tissue paper cutouts with humorous depictions of skeletons engaged in a varied of activities -- both the workmanship and the themes are truly amazing.

    Day of the Dead: things to do around Guadalajara 2006

  • After climbing the rugged three hours to the top, where all seems dry, rocky, and barren, I have turned a corner of the trail and found a minature fern and moss garden hugging a cleft of rock where water seeps to the surface.

    Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph. D.: Requiem For Japan Rita Nakashima Brock 2011

  • They even had some D & D minature sets, which I just had to buy two sets of and wished I had bought more to give away.

    Geek With (Lots of) Books: Giant Book Warehouse! 2009

  • I'm gluing a minature gramophone to a wooden pedestal for you as we speak.

    Diddle for the Middle Matthew Guerrieri 2009

  • After climbing the rugged three hours to the top, where all seems dry, rocky, and barren, I have turned a corner of the trail and found a minature fern and moss garden hugging a cleft of rock where water seeps to the surface.

    Rita Nakashima Brock, Ph. D.: Requiem For Japan Rita Nakashima Brock 2011

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